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Teluv:
congratulation.

Can you please give more details on how to request for an Urgent processing on SOWP application

skull4eva:
Thanks and congrats once again? Please before the sowp was approved did they notify you when eligibility started on your sowp application?

skull4eva:
Congratulations !!!!! Finally it has ended in praise. Please i want to ask was it a stand alone SOWP application?
For clearity do you mean after ur sowp was approved on 4th feb IRCC requested you withdraw ur visit visa application?

elizyous:
It has ended in praise oh!!!! PPR alert for my husband's SOWP application!!!

Oh Thank you JESUS!! WHAT GOD CANNOT DO DOES NOT EXIST OH!!!

I will come back to testify. Make I close work first. Please join me to thank this Mighty God!!! This testimony will reach everyone waiting on God for their testimony! Amen!!!

deepwater:
Hi
What is your eligibility status on your portal ?

shams040:
Please which MP area is this?

sam4774:
why is it that you guys keep asking them to inquire on your file and not request for urgent processing? especially candidates that have opted to do visiting visa as a supplementary action. granted when i attempted to do SOWP urgent processing through the MPs IRCC ignored me but visit visa under reuniting with your spouse or immediate family member that works. please lets be more aggressive and less meek guys! God will grant us all this thing in Jesus name.

Stonehenge83:
It's PPR guys. God be praised. It shall get to all of us in Jesus name. Amen.

corleone427:
Omo waiting for this PPR is hard o....been since April....he nor easy o.....been six months now o....it isn't an easy wait....Canada please nah....God let it all end in praise o

lightswitch007:
Some MPs can be terrible with responses.

sam4774:
wow thats not very encouraging, i thought the earliest SOWP on this thread was late april. have you ordered GCMS notes recently to see where exactly ib your application you are? or have you reached out to an MP to expedite the process?

@babybless have you booked your medicals?

Akannitommy:
FINAL PPR ALERT, it has ended in massive praises! Alhamdulilah!!

We received PPR for the remaining members of my family earlier today and also got a travel restriction exemption authorization approval for my 2 year old son. After we waited for two weeks after the first set of PPR for my daughters, we decided to send their passports on Monday to Abuja. We did to avoid the pitfall of missing 30-days deadline for submitting passports. The passports were delivered on Wednesday due to Tuesday holiday. Counterfoil for the girls were updated on the portal Friday and DHL picked up stamped passport same day - tracking shows it is en-route to Lagos. We woke up to receive PPR for my wife and son this morning, as well as a travel authorization for ONLY our son - since he applied for visitor and we also applied for the travel restriction exemption twice. The letter of introduction for the girls dropped too.

We are juggling many things right now and the logistics are crazy. I pray that everyone waiting for their PPR gets it soonest. I understand what you all are going through because I was in the same boat for over 5 months and I not unaware that several more have been waiting longer. Hang in there, be hopeful. Your time will come very soon. It has finally ended in praises. Many thanks to everyone who rendered assistance in one way or another on this platform in this journey. You are all too many to list but you know thy selves and the Almighty God know you even more. Your rewards will be in multi-folds and bountiful. Also, I am grateful for the emotional support everyone provided all through the process.

Again, it has ended in praises!! Alhamdulilah!!

See updated timeline below:

15th May - Application submission with upfront medicals for 3 out of 4 (All 3 had April 2021 passport expiry dates)
19th May - Medicals for Spouse and two kids (student permits) updated to passed
25th May - Wife completed bio-metric while kids didn't due to minor ages
3 months - Nothing; not even ghost update. Focused on passport renewal process and NIN reconciliation wahala.
18th August - Sent Nairobi inquiry email and got normal auto-response immediately
19th August - Nairobi replied my inquiry saying the usual stuff - under active review & unable to say when to finalize
19th August - Applied for GCMS notes for all
26th August - Applied for written travel authorization exemption (WTRE) for all
4th September - Emailed MP office covering my residential area
5th September - Emailed MP office covering my school area
8th September - Senior Advisor (staff) to MP covering my house replied - " I should reach out in 2 weeks if I haven’t received anything......."
9th September - Eligibility review commenced -- no ghost update - just random login and saw it
10th September - Received medical request for 2 year old son (who didn't do upfront medical since it was visitor visa for him).
10th September - 3 emails responses per travel authorization application - one shows son's WTRE is authorized & others tagged "courtesy"
17th September - Completed son's medical exam and uploaded result via webform and emails to Nairobi - no reply.
26th September - Son's medical updated to passed
6th October - Received PPR for daughters' study permit applications.
18th October - Sent daughters' passports to Abuja using DHL return service

18th October - Same day after I had sent 2 passports, the MP's office replied my umpteenth inquiry saying that "regarding the progress of requests, they are all linked and processed together. Verification of eligibility and medical results was accepted. The next step concerns the final decision which must be rendered (we do not have the date). Regarding your second question, I spoke with an IRCC agent who told me that you could send the 4 passports together by putting an explanatory letter explaining that it is easier financially and logistically to do like this and there shouldn't be any problem, but don't hang around in sending passports."

18th October - I replied MP's office that I had sent 2 passports and that I wouldn't want to risk sending all four because am not sure someone won't mix things up just because there was not PPR for 2 of the passports. In my experience, most people who work in customer service etc behave like robots lacking latitude to apply discretion in sensitive or unfamiliar situation. I didn't want anyone to use me as experiment.

22nd October - Daughters' profile showed counterfoil have been issued - visa stamped - expiry date is 4 months earlier than my own expiry date. No problem because that is valid for 2 years essentially.

23rd October - PPR for my wife and son dropped along with travel restriction exemption approval for my son & the girl's letter of intro.

The grace and joy shall go round by the special grace of God Almighty.

Hollushola:
Hello Everyone, do you think one can apply for a Visit visa while awaiting decision on a SOWP application?

sam4774:
it seems like more people are joining this thread and little to no one is leaving because IRCC is not prioritising stand alone SOWP at all. will it be possible for us to highlight our application dates? So we can have an understanding as to how far back this backlog is. i am thinking if we all send a webform at the-same time or email to the kenya office or anything else as a group to instead of all individually doing our own things because this is getting ridiculous.

i applied May 4th....

Hollushola:
Applied 29th May, 2021. But nothing yet. Did you apply for the GCMS note?

lightswitch007:
Help me thank God oo. My infant's TRV visa just landed, applied August 6 both eligibility and approval arrived today. Na only me remain oo since May. IRCC please ooo.

Akannitommy:
Also, I applied for GCMS notes since 19th August but nothing yet till date. I sent email to follow up, same thing. Anyone in similar situation?

Stonehenge83:
This IRCC people will just be playing with someone's intelligence. I saw status update when I tried logging in and it didn't open all through last night. Early this morning too same thing. When I finally logged in nothing is there. That's two ghostings between last night and this morning and a total of 4 since application was submitted. God dey o.